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19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Context: We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.
“Even godlike aliens have to act rationally—don’t they?”
“I wouldn’t know,” she said. “I can’t recall ever meeting any.”
Chapter 18 (p. 301)
Pushing Ice (2005)
The Unadulterated Cat (1989)
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
VII, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
Part II : The Economics of a Socialist Community, § I : The Economics of an Isolated Socialist Community, Ch. 5 : The Nature of Economic Activity, p. 97 http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msS3.html#Part%20II,Ch.5
Socialism (1922)
Source: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
